Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:05 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> While this problem wouldn't have occurred, we would instead have
> data corruption/alignment faults on architectures such as sparc32
> or ARM that require 64-bit alignment for 64-bit objects.

Yeah, but that's what ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is for.

ARM gets this right, and Dave has already said he's going to fix sparc.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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